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I received an email this morning from Mindy Tsang, Marketing Associate at http://www.newegg.com, saying that NewEgg plans to implement an affiliate program in the future. However, she did not mention a timeline.

Looks like TigerDirect and Computer Geeks have some serious major league competition looming on the horizon.

Depending on how's it's set up, or who it's set up through, they can count me in as an affiliate. That's where most of my computer, my dad's computer and my brother's computer came from. That's always the first place I go when looking for hardware.

If it's a good, clean in-house (with decent commissions) then I'm in.

On a side note, I wish they'd go ahead and get the new site up they designed months ago.

The kicker is… the whole thing ended up costing $397.00plus $47.00 shipping… From New Egg…! Total price $444.00…And it only took about 2 hours to assemble and program…

Screw Dell, Gateway, HP, and all the rest of them… I’ll never buyanother pre-built system again unless it’s at a yard sale… and thenIt will only be for inventory to sell on my ebay site...

New Egg really rocks…The most ironic and horrid thing I can think of is for New Eggto end up on CJ or Linkshare… They’re too good for either of thesewhore mongers… I’d love to see them go with SAS or indie…

I’ll still buy from them no matter what they do… but, I might notbe able to be an affiliate if they choose to lie down with the dogs…That would be a real shame…

"If you have a marketing proposal or would like to advertise for Newegg.com on your website, please contact our marketing department."

Maybe they would like to hear from everyone here. Experiences, opinions, views on parasites and networks, etc.

I am very sure that they can learn a lot from ABW veterans if you will contact them. Perhaps, if they are just starting out setting up an affiliate program, the extra time involved would be very well spent by everyone here at least sending an email to NewEgg Advertising/Marketing to at least say "Hello". Even small queries can turn into long discussions if nurtured wisely.

It would be good to let NewEgg know we are interested in their success, too, and that we will help them in whatever small ways each of us can. After all, if they have never run an affiliate program before, they are rookies and we must help increase their knowledge and understanding of affiliate marketing as well as treat them with courtesy, kindness, patience and understanding.

Perfect fit for my Safe Haven Network, where a dynamo AM like Andy could concentrate on making their natural conversion ratio into a reported reality. No problems for a newbee, or veteran affiliate enabled merchant, as the tricksters can't get an affiliate ID# nor fly under the radar with things like direct links from PPCSE's or doorway pages with auto cookie setting redirects. Any BHO flies hawking their corrupted competitors will be ignored by the pissed off hijacked consumers when seeing THE NOTICE- all sales made at the SHN mall are exempt from getting rewards/loyality/rebates from participating merchants at this location!

Webmaster's... Mike and Charlie

"What have you done today to put real value into a referral click...from a shoppers viewpoint!"

My guess is that they will only be able to offer a small % commission though.

I would surmise that the reason they have only worked with the really big players so far is that the volumes those sites generate makes up for a smaller commission. I mean, let's be realistic - they have some of the best prices, so their own markup is pretty shallow - it doesn't leave as much room for a commission as some other place that marks up more or specializes in close-outs that it picks up for under-wholesale pricing.

My view has always been that it's better to take a smaller percentage of something that really sells than a big percentage of something that rarely converts. Maybe not a good psychology for datafeed / catalog affiliates, but it works for us content / hybrid folks.

I am a marketer at Newegg.com and we are, in fact, considering implementing an affiliate marketing program. However, this project has been given a lower priorty than many of our other endeavors, so the project is still in infancy and we need more information. That is why I am here.

I have found that A Best Web is a valuable information resource regarding affiliate marketing and you have experience developing successful programs in the past.

Of specific interest to me in this thread is your aversion to outsourced programs like linkshare and CJ, both of whom have approached us in the past. Why are these programs less desirable than an in-house program that would have to be built specifically for our company and would require significant internal resources of both time and money.

Additionally, you have also correctly deduced that we are a low margin company, and we cannot afford to pay high commisions. At what point does an affiliate program become more effort than it's worth to the individual affiliate marketers?

We do hope to launch a mutually profitable affiliate marketing program sometime in the near future and you assistance would be greatly appreciated.